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   TOWSON, Md. –  A day after a 16-year-old suspect was charged with   
   first-degree murder for allegedly accelerating a stolen Jeep at a   
   Maryland police officer and running her down, three more teenagers   
   were charged Wednesday as adults in her death.   
      
   Under the state's felony murder law, if someone is killed during a   
   burglary, accomplices can be found guilty of the slaying along with   
   the suspected killer. For this reason, authorities say the three were   
   charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Baltimore County   
   police officer Amy Caprio even though they were allegedly burglarizing   
   a nearby home when she was fatally injured Monday on a suburban   
   cul-de-sac.   
      
   "They are in for everything that occurs as a result of that burglary,   
   including when their co-defendant is outside running over a police   
   officer and killing her," Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott   
   Shellenberger said.   
      
   Fifteen-year-old Darrell Jaymar Ward, 16-year-old Derrick Eugene   
   Matthews and 17-year-old Eugene Robert Genius IV, who were arrested   
   Tuesday, have also been charged with first-degree burglary.   
      
   At a court hearing Wednesday, Ward and Matthews waived their right to   
   appear, and a judge ordered them held without bond at an adult lockup.   
   Genius appeared through video and requested a postponement because his   
   lawyer could not attend Wednesday. The judge agreed.   
      
   A fourth suspect, 16-year-old Dawnta Anthony Harris, was the first to   
   be charged with first-degree murder. The slain officer's body camera   
   footage clearly shows Harris accelerating the Jeep at Caprio after she   
   tried to apprehend him Monday in the Perry Hall community northeast of   
   Baltimore, prosecutor William Bickel asserted during Harris' bail   
   hearing Tuesday.   
      
   Harris was ordered held without bond at an adult jail by a judge who   
   described him as a "one-man crime wave."   
      
   A public defender who represented Harris requested that he be sent to   
   a juvenile lockup, but prosecutors noted his series of auto theft   
   arrests and a repeated recent history of running away from juvenile   
   facilities.   
      
   Baltimore defense attorney J. Wyndal Gordon announced Wednesday that   
   he will join with another lawyer to represent Harris, saying they will   
   not allow the 16-year-old suspect to be "sacrificed to the system."   
      
   "Every life is worth fighting for. This young man is no different, he   
   deserves a chance. And let's not forget, even though I refer to him as   
   a young man, he is still a child," Gordon wrote Wednesday in a   
   Facebook post.   
      
   The Associated Press does not ordinarily identify underage suspects   
   unless they face adult charges.   
      
   The 29-year-old Caprio was run down Monday by a stolen Jeep driven by   
   Harris after she responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle,   
   investigators have said. Harris was apprehended shortly after   
   abandoning the Jeep, which police said had been stolen May 18 in   
   Baltimore. According to probable cause statement, Harris admitted as   
   much, telling a detective that he "drove at the officer."   
      
   According to probable cause statements obtained Wednesday, Harris   
   identified Ward, Matthews and Genius as the three subjects responsible   
   for the burglary.   
      
   Matthews and Ward acknowledged committing the burglary, probable cause   
   statements allege. Genius at first declined to give a statement but   
   later objected to being charged with murder, saying he was in the   
   house when the killing occurred, another statement said.   
      
   Attempts to reach people believed to be relatives of Ward, Matthews   
   and Genius were not successful Wednesday. Reporters made calls and   
   knocked on doors of several homes in Baltimore listed in court   
   documents, but there was no response.   
      
   Harris, a ninth-grader, had fled house arrest a week before the   
   incident and was still wearing a court-ordered ankle bracelet when he   
   ran down Caprio, authorities said.   
      
   Sam Abed, the Maryland Secretary of Juvenile Services, said at a news   
   conference that his department had made "many attempts" to contact   
   Harris after he went missing from his mother's house but was   
   unsuccessful.   
      
   The ankle bracelet Harris was wearing Monday simply indicated whether   
   he was inside or outside his home — it did not track his whereabouts,   
   Shellenberger, the prosecutor, said.   
      
   "Did the system not work?" police Chief Terrence Sheridan said. "It   
   sounds like ... it could have worked better in this particular case."   
      
   Caprio, who would have been on the force four years in July, was   
   smart, athletic and energetic, just the type of officer you want to   
   hire, Sheridan said. She and her husband had been planning a vacation   
   this weekend to celebrate their third wedding anniversary and their   
   upcoming birthdays, police said.   
      
   A medical examiner determined she died of trauma to the head and   
   torso, according to Sheridan.   
      
   The death stunned the quiet, residential neighborhood where the   
   officer was killed. A steady stream of residents and well-wishers has   
   left bouquets and other offerings just outside the police station   
   where she once worked.   
      
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